no-more-secrets VS cool-retro-term

Your comparison is a bit disingenuous. I thought that the reasonable point of comparison was obvious, so let me state it in case it's not:

* For this C program: Let's say a default install of a Debian system, with GCC and Make installed. Nothing else. Just clone and run make && ./bin/nms.

* For an hypothetical JavaScript implementation: Same Debian system, with Node.js installed. Nothing else. Just clone and run node ./src/nms.js.

Now tell me that the second point would ever happen, of course without the obvious trick of vendoring tens or hundreds of dependencies in the repo itself. Given the current trends and ecosystem incentives in the JS development world, I highly doubt it.

These trends only favor mindless composition, of which the latter is good, but the former is bad. IMHO most devs would probably not even consider the idea of writing a compact, self-contained piece of code and have their own termio [1] or charset [2] implementations, to begin with.

[1]: https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets/blob/master/src/...

[2]: https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets/blob/master/src/...

I would love to see someone use this to do the "No More Secrets" effect from Sneakers in a film or TV show. It still looks so cool.

Just in case if you're wondering what are those alien looking things appearing in my CLI, that is NMS (no more secrets), just a tool to prank your friends. I'll leave a link as well😺

To fellow lovers of that film: allow me to introduce you to No More Secrets, an implementation of the decryption effect shown in the film.

https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets

If you've seen the movie "Sneakers" you'll probably want to check this out. And if you haven't seen Sneakers, then watch it.

for lazy people

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

This is the best way to play short of hooking up your needle printer as a faux teletype terminal.

Very related: Cool-Retro-Term (CRT) - a terminal that makes it look retro ;)

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

You're covered: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Seems like a good spot to mention https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Cool Retro Terminal is a nice accessory for when doing recording or screenshots - cause it looks cool. Can't use it as my daily driver tho.

And enough settings in there you can make it look like your favourite old one.

I'd guess most things you can get now are just regular command prompt style windows with a "retro" look (colour scheme). Oooh, you can change the text to green and maybe add a scan line effect. I am looking for a full experience like the Secret Geometry programs! The only similar-ish one I have found is Cool Retro Term, but that is for Linux and Mac only it seems :/

not directly related, but I've been thinking about getting an old CRT monitor, launch https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term and start working

This puts me in mind of Cool Retro Term. Lots of built in schemes.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Usually packaged by your distro.

This together with cool-retro-term[1] is an absolute must on my machines for real hacker hours.

[1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

I've enjoyed using this. I don't run it for long but I do run it sometimes for the sake of nostalgia. When I do run it, I run it in full screen for the complete experience. However, to balance practicality with nostalgia, I run a tmux session with the cool-retro-term, so that once I get tired of it, I can quickly switch back to my regular terminal without losing my terminal session.

The effects are configurable. I disable the settings named Burin, Glow Line, and RGB Shift to get crisper and less distracting experience. The RGB Shift setting is disabled for most built-in profiles anyway but enabled for some profiles like Vintage and IBM Dos. The Vintage profile is quite amusing. Everything is cranked way up. The blurry text and the incessant flickering of the screen create an unsettling impression that the monitor might break down any moment.

By the way, if you didn't notice it the app is named cool-retro-term and it abbreviates to CRT. The app icon[1] is also a CRT followed by the cursor. Guess what else abbreviates to CRT? Yes, "cathode-ray tube" of the cathode-ray tube (CRT) computer monitors

[1]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/blob/f157648d...